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Continue (and don't reset) running games when switching devices

A topic by petervdmeer created Dec 31, 2021 Views: 419 Replies: 2
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I have a feature request to continue running games when switching devices.
I was playing the following game of Tower Swap on my mobile (day 1 just ended):

but this run of the game was likely going to take quite a bit of time (day 1 already took more than 1000 swaps), so I wanted to transfer the game to my laptop...

Unfortunately the running game didn't continue on my laptop after I logged on there and the game also stopped playing on my mobile because it asked for a re-logon and then moved me back to the main menu. Could you also restore the running game for me? (My username in the game is Joop)

Developer

Wow, good start! I'm sorry about that, I should somehow warn people that your current game can't be continued from another device. This is to prevent cheating, because the server doesn't save after every move that you make or there might be lag after making a move. So if you were allowed to continue on another device then you could turn off wifi then make a match then if you don't like what pieces fall in, you could kill the app and open on another device and then you'd be back to where you were before turning off wifi. The game state is saved to the server at the end of each day, but for display only on your profile https://towerswap.app/player/Joop There's no code in the app to resume from the server's board state. I can give you back one of those defenses to your inventory to start your next game though. I'll give you a gold ballista.

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Thanks for your reply. For this specific game I actually started with a gold chest boost from my inventory; starting with 400 extra swaps on the initial round seemed really powerful; more powerful than starting with an actual gold defense, because 400 swaps can get you multiple gold defenses. Starting with a gold chest is especially powerful if you then can combine in-game chests to get another gold chest after about 350 swaps.

Can I ask for a new gold chest instead of the gold ballista? :)